Shoe-button and fastener



P. ABURR & W. H. MERCER.

(ModeL) SHOE BUTTON AND PASTENER.

Patented N0v. 8, 1881.

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PHILANDER B URR AND WILLIAM H. MERGER, OF WORTHINGTON, INDIANA.

SHOE-BUTTON AND FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,298, dated November8, 1881.

Application filed April 6,1881. (Modeh) To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that we, PHILANDER BURR and WILLIAM HENRY MERCER, ofWorthington, in the county of Greene and State of Indiana, have inventeda new and Improved Shoe-Button and Fastener, of which the following is aspecification.

Ourinvention consists, principally, of a screwcap provided with an eyefor holding a button, the screw-cap being adapted to be secured to theshoe by a screw-bolt or similar means.

The invention also consists of a button having a concave bottom, inwhich the eye of-the button isplaced, incombination with the screwcapand screw-bolt or similar means, and also in the eye of the screw-capplaced upon one Similar lettersof reference indicate corre I spondingparts.

The bottom A, of any suitable material, is concaved on its under side,and is attached to the screw-cap B by the eyes a b, the latter beingsecured to or formed upon the side of the cap B. The cap 13 is of anysuitable metal or other suitable material, and preferably circular inform and flat upon the bottom, and oval or convex on the top, and isformed with the central screw-threaded opening, 0, by which itisattached to the leather E of the shoe bythe headed screw-bolt O, whichpasses through the leather. The head of the bolt 0 is flat and somewhatlarger in circumference than the cap B, and the edge of it is creased,so that it can be turned into the screw-cap without the use of anyimplement or it may be provided with the diametrical slot d, forsecuring the cap and bolt together by the use of a screw-driver orsimilar device.

' Thus constructed,the button can be easily attached to and removed fromthe shoe, and without the necessary use of any implements,

' and by means of the flat bottom ofthe cap B and the large head of thescrew-bolt O danger of tearing the leather or cloth of the shoe isalmost entirely obviated, and the eye I) being secured to one side ofthe cap B, or about midway between the central opening thereof and thecircumference, the tension or draw on the button does not tend to tipthe head of the bolt 0, thus lessening the liability to hurt the foot orankle ot' the wearer, and the under side of the button being concaved,the tension on the eye, when buttoned, causes the button to be heldevenly upon the part having the butt0n-hole, thus presentinga niceappearance.

Though we have shown the screw-cap adapted to be secured to the shoe bymeans of a screw-bolt, it is obvious that other means might be used forthis purpose-as,,for instance, the cap might be provided on its bottomwith one or more points of metal adapted to pass through the leather ormaterial of the shoe and to be clinched to hold the button and cap andnot depart from the spirit of our invention.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- 1. The screw-cap B, provided with the eye 11,adapted to hold the button A, in combination with means, substantiallyas described, for securing the cap to the material of the shoe,substantially as set forth.

2. The button A, having its bottom concave in form, in combination withthe cap B and means, substantially as described, forfastening the cap tothe shoe, as set forth.

3. The screw-cap B, having thecentral screwopening, 0, and the eye b,secured at one side of the cap, in combination with the button A andscrew-bolt O, substantially as shown and described.

PHILANDER BURR. WILLIAM HENRY MERGER.

Witnesses WILBER A. HAYS, W. E. BAUGHMAN.

